My thoughts

Writing a story 03/24/07

More of my thoughts of writing a story, something I have to admit I need a lot of work on.

The main thing I will go into here is the need to see through your character's eyes. Your character must be so real to you it is almost as if you become your character. This applies to the setting as well. You must get to the place where you find yourself magically transported to the setting seeing it through your character's eyes.

This is not easy to do. I think it akin to playing a movie in your mind. What makes that difficult is as we all know, movies aren't much into smells, tastes and inner thoughts and feelings.

You have to project yourself into the movie. When I watch a movie I am usually good at projecting myself into a movie. That is one reason, btw, that I don't usually nitpick over little details, I am so caught up into what is happening that I gloss over them.

This is more difficult when I write because I am visualizing the movie that I am writing. So it turns me into the producer, director, acter, scene writer, etc all at the same time. Not an easy task. That is why setting time aside to write is so vital. It usually takes time to enter into this mode.

But when I am there, it is so worth it because that is when my work really shines.